Daviess County MO Archives History .....THE KILLING OF JAMES WELDON OF DAVIESS COUNTY,  
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THE KILLING OF JAMES WELDON OF DAVIESS COUNTY, IN THE CIVIL WAR TIMES
	Narrator:  Dr. Libby Woolsey, 75
 
     In the first series of interviews, Dr. Woolsey told of the killing of 
Humphrey Weldon, here he tells of the killing of another Weldon, James of 
Harrison county, Daviess county, as a southern sympathizer.  Dr. Woolsey was 
reared in the Weldon neighborhood, and knew all about these facts.
     James Weldon had been in the Southern army, but had returned to his home, 
had taken the oath of fidelity, and was a member of the local Home Guards or 
militia.  A captain of the Caldwell county militia, well known for such 
actions, had been up into Daviess county on military business with a squad of 
men and on his return, went out of his way to stop at the James Weldon home.  
It was well known that Weldon had been in the Confederate ranks, the captain 
knew of it, and he rode up to the house after dark, called him out (a common 
way to get a victim), took him out onto the prairie and killed him, leaving 
his body for whatever might happen to it.  The home folks found it that night 
after they heard the shots.
     A similar story was told by Dr. Woolsey concerning the killing of one 
Crews (whom Doctor Woolsey had heard about) who was shot down by a Capt. 
Bromfield at a Harrison township picnic who happened to be at the picnic and 
heard that a man was there (named Crews) who had served in the Confederate 
army.  That was enough for Bromfield and having had a sign on his intended 
victim,  whom he had never seen before, he walked up to him and shot him dead.
     Interview  1934.


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